For Faculty

Faculty are critical to CMCC’s research. Read our 2024 research culture and capacity study for free here.

How to get involved

There are several ways for CMCC faculty to get involved in research, regardless of whether you are an experienced or inexperienced researcher and with varying levels of commitment to fit within your schedule.

  • Typically faculty with advanced research training and/or experience
  • Greater time commitment
  • Opportunity to mentor less experienced faculty and supervise students
  • Role
    • Principal investigator
  • Examples of responsibilities
    • Conceptualization
    • Development of methodology
    • Project management
    • Manuscript preparation and editing
    • Grant preparation
  • Contact the Office of Research Administration (ora@cmcc.ca) and review the Resources provided below to learn more about conducting research at CMCC
  • Typically faculty with less research experience who are looking to develop knowledge and skills
  • Flexible time commitment depending on role within project
  • Receive mentorship from other researchers on the project
  • Can include mentorship of students through research committee involvement
  • Possible roles
    • Co-investigator
    • Research assistant
    • Clinician providing treatment
  • Examples of responsibilities
    • Screening and appraisal for reviews
    • Laboratory data collection
    • Recruitment of participants
    • Interpreting results
    • Manuscript preparation and editing
  • Contact a researcher in our database here, or the Office of Research Administration (ora@cmcc.ca) to learn about available opportunities
  • Also check out the research being conducted in…

  • Some of CMCC’s research is focused on faculty and staff
  • Research studies that are looking for participants can be found on the For participants page here
 

Be supported

All research requires time and most research requires operational resources. Support for time and operational resources is available to CMCC faculty through the Faculty Research Hours and Internal Research Support Fund competition. Learn more about this competitive process here.

CMCC also has well-equipped and staffed Human Performance and Life Sciences research labs that are accessible to faculty. Contact Dr. Samuel Howarth (showarth@cmcc.ca) for inquiries regarding Human Performance Research and Dr. Brian Budgell (bbudgell@cmcc.ca) for inquiries regarding Life Sciences Research.

 

Resources

  

Internal

Faculty Research Hours and Internal Research Support Fund CMCC’s internal competition for faculty to receive compensation for working on a research project and funding to conduct research
Research Ethics Board Information regarding CMCC’s Research Ethics Board and project review process.
Research ethics forms and materials Application forms and materials to apply for ethics clearance to conduct a research project.
Support for open-access publication Make your published research available to anyone at no cost.
Project management Information regarding contracts, accounting, reporting, and registration.
Researcher database See who’s doing what.
Research policies Specific policies and procedures that govern conduct of research at CMCC.
LibGuide A comprehensive resource on research and scholarly communication brought together by CMCC’s Library.
Research support

Methodology and statistics

Clinical and Health Services Research

Human Performance Research

Life Sciences Research
 

External

ORCiD Open Researcher and Contributor ID. A unique and persistent identifier that helps you claim your research and review activities.
OSF Open Science Framework. A platform for registering research projects that promotes transparency and openness throughout the research process.
EQUATOR Network Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research. Guidelines to help with design and reporting of research studies.
CRediT authorship statement Contributor Roles Taxonomy. Provides authors the opportunity to accurately describe contributions to published research.;